A blog sharing information about materials presented to children on climate, highlighting those intended to frighten or mislead, and those which seek to inform and inspire rather than to recruit, even the very young, for an ill-founded political campaign around the threat of CAGW. A campaign which is irresponsible, destructive, divisive, and degrading.

'First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial.'

Climate-anxiety: reports of frightened children

Last update: 08 April 2017
I want to provide links to reports, comments, and discussions of children being frightened by what they have been told about climate change or how they have been told it.

The problem of deliberately targeting the very young using scare stories to win their attention and attract them to political causes or even actions was described in the context of many eco-scares by Herbert London in 1984, in his book 'Why Are They Lying to Our Children'. Climate scares get a mention there, but since then we have seen many quite outrageous efforts by climate activists to, in Lomberg's words, scare 'our kids silly'. He also noted (this is 2009): 'We see the same pattern in the United Kingdom, where a survey showed that half of young children aged between seven and 11 are anxious about the effects of global warming, often losing sleep because of their concern. This is grotesquely harmful. And let us be honest. This scare was intended. Children believe that global warming will destroy the planet before they grow up because adults are telling them that .'

There is some sign that the disgraceful targeting may become less common, now that some researchers have found (2014) that it does not help 'the cause': 'Alarmist claims about the impact of global warming are contributing
to a loss of trust in climate scientists, an inquiry has found. Apocalyptic
language has been used about greenhouse gas emissions as “a
deliberate strategy by some to engage public interest”. However,
trying to make people reduce emissions by frightening them has
“harmful consequences” because they often respond suspiciously or
decide the issue is “too scary to think about”. The
inquiry, by a team of senior scientists from a range of disciplines,
was commissioned by University College London to find better ways of
informing the public about climate science.' (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4128107.ece) The report from UCL is available as a pdf here:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-policy/Policy_Commissions/Communication-climate-science/Communication-climate-science-report/TIME_FOR_CHANGE_Final_Proof.pdf 'Schneiderian Scenarios No Longer Cool', in other words. Shame on them all. They will look for other ways to promote their interests. As we noted in 'Climate Control' (2014) '.. the discovery that fear is a poor means of persuasion seems only to have engendered a determination amongst activist teachers to find more insidious ways to recruit children to their cause'

The newspaper headline is derived from this report (pdf) from researchers at the University of Oxford, and the newspaper article ends with quoting a glib remark: 'Bryony Worthington, a climate campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said:
"The biodiversity research group cannot really claim that it
constituted crying wolf, as there is potential for the worst-case
scenarios to be realised." ' So, by this logic, since the crowded theatre has the potential for it, shouting 'Fire!' is the thing to do. She went on to be the main labouring wordsmith in the putting together of the UK's Climate Change Act passed in 2008.

#2006. A report on UN plans to scare children for political purposes:

'Finally, the United Nations Environmental Programme is spending our money to come out with scary children’s fairy tales about global warming. Sedena, the Mother of the Sea, is featured in the UN Environmental Programme’s latest children’s book on global warming entitled “Tore and the Town on Thin Ice”. This book tells the story of a young boy named Tore who lives in a village in the Arctic and is upset when he loses a dog sled race. The Mother of the Sea appears in Tore’s dream and informs him that the thinning ice, which caused his loss in the dog sled race, was due to man-made global warming.

But that is nothing compared to what it is doing to the Mother of the Sea’s own dominion and to all living creatures. She sends an owl, a polar bear, and a whale to scare poor Tore into thinking that they will become extinct during his lifetime and that “our world is melting” from climate changes, mostly caused by those bad people in “rich countries” who are spewing gases in the air from their “huge cars”, air conditioners and the like. In the words of the whale, children like Tore should “get good and angry”. The book ends with a so-called “facts” section, blaming climate change on the “Industrial Revolution in Europe and North America” and singling out the United States in particular for its contribution to the production of “carbon dioxide added by humans.” It claims that “climate change will hit the poorer countries hardest” while at the same time saying that New York along with other coastal areas “could disappear beneath the waves.”

It seems that scaring children is right up there in the UN toolbox to fix global warming ...'

#2006 General argument as to why climate alarmism in schools could be harmful for a long time: 'Collectively, anxiety conditions are the most common mental disorders in children. Moreover, they often persist throughout life, causing significant distress and interfering significantly with social life and achievement both during the child’s formative years and later in adulthood. Early intervention to prevent or treat anxiety in childhood has the potential to avert some of these debilitating consequences.'Quote is from article by Kathy Griffiths
Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Canberra ACThttp://hsr.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/17/issue/1/review/485/the-worry-busters-program-an-anxiety

#2007 A postgraduate student in Oxford gets it 'This should be a wake-up call for all the purveyors of the ‘politics of fear’. Children are, naturally, relatively powerless and likely to feel overwhelmed by the challenges facing mankind. But as adults, we should have a greater sense of our own collective power to master problems and build better societies. Not only does jumping from one panic to another, each with disastrous consequences – mobile phone radiation, BSE, SARS, crime, paedophilia, terrorism, bird flu, global warming – diminish our own sense of agency, by turning childhood dreams of utopia into nightmarish visions of the future it is teaching the citizens of the future all the wrong lessons.'Turning Children Green with Fear : http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2950/

#2007 More anecdotal evidence: 'In one online discussion of the problem, Lisa from Perth in Scotland reports that her kids are so worried about climate change that they have even asked her if she still wants to be cremated.' Quote from above link: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2950/

#2007 Why do campaigners target children with fearful tales? Here is a post on an Australian site about early childhood which addresses the question 'Why do young children need to know about climate change?'. I include it here as a source of insight into the mentality and some of the arguments used: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/resource_themes/sustainability_global_warming_and_climate_change/why_do_young_children_need_to_know_about_climate_change.html
Extract 'With children over three, adults can begin to discuss the reasons
these practices are needed. This encourages deeper learning, where
children become critical thinkers, helping them to understand the impact
that our actions have on the planet'#2007 A UK study of primary school children found extensive evidence in its 'soundings' of children scared about climate change: 'The soundings programme as a whole was pervaded by a sense of deep pessimism about the
future, to which children themselves were not immune. Many expressed concern about
climate change, global warming and pollution,...' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/12_10_2007primary.pdf)
But this was not reflected in the final report, whose author instead chose to assert that such fears were alleviated in schools where efforts were made to get children to do things: 'On the other hand, two major and more positive findings from our community
soundings study are definitely worth repeating here. First, for many children and
families it is the schools which provide the security, support, sense of purpose,
positive values and sense of community which may be in decline outside the school
gates. Second, pessimism turned to hope when witnesses felt they had the power to
act. So, for example, the children who were most confident that climate change would not overwhelm them were those whose primary schools had decided to
replace unfocused fear by factual information and practical strategies for energy
reduction and sustainable living. As we said at the time, there’s an important
lesson here, for Government as well as for schools.' (http://www.robinalexander.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Childhood-lecture-2.pdf). Note the sinister pushing of getting schools to come between parents and children with 'strategies for energy reduction and sustainable living'.

#2008 A paper in a mental health journal 'Hope, despair and transformation: Climate change and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing', one that takes the alarm over climate at face value (does such naivity occur over other speculations?). Extract:'It is likely that many children are aware of the threat of climate change. However, it is also quite likely that they are confused about the facts and the magnitude of the threat they personally face, and might feel anxious, concerned or confused. Worries and anxieties about these threats can become difficult for children of all ages to deal with.'http://www.ijmhs.com/content/2/1/13

#2008 Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Something being inflicted every day on children around the world about climate change? "The triple-threat posed by today's impending energy, climate and financial crises can steal our conception of the future, rob us of who we believe we are, and threaten our sense of normalcy. The result is an eco-anxiety that, as Richard Heinberg has pointed out, might best be defined as a pre-traumatic stress syndrome." http://eco-anxiety.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/eco-anxiety-pre-traumatic-stress.html

# The pyschology page of that site is also relevant, since as far as I can see, pyschologists and their organisations have collaborated with rather than resisted the climate scaremongering, as have other professions such as PR agencies: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/AGW_Psychology.htm

'So, if the climate scare-mongers can't frighten the adults, the next logical step is to heap angst on their children who then frighten (or better, pester) the adults into action.'

#2011 Academic study of anxiety, depression etc caused by climate alarmism: 'The two Queensland University of Technology investigators say their results reveal that the public is "becoming increasingly concerned about climate change" and that there is a relationship between this concern and symptoms that are "indicative of depression, anxiety and stress." They say that individuals "are finding information about climate change increasingly difficult to cope with, and the resulting negative thoughts and feelings are contributing to the development and maintenance of clinical levels of depressive and anxious symptoms." They also note that the majority of the study participants "were more concerned about climate change now than they were three, five and ten years ago, reflecting the increasing concern shown in the media and the more commonly used discourses of our time relating to fear, danger and catastrophe." In addition, they report that "all ages felt equally as helpless, hopeless and powerless," and that "greater overall distress in the younger age groups may reflect the increasing tendency to teach climate change themes in school curriculae." 'http://nipccreport.org/articles/2011/jul/12jul2011a1.html

#2011'Got kids? Watched as they've been indoctrinated - sorry, I mean educated - about global warming over the last decade? Then you'll know what I mean. They come home from school moodily depressed about the future of our planet and, of course, what that means for their own lives. What's the point? We're all doomed! Why study? Why bother getting an education? It's futile. Sea levels are rising. Temperatures are soaring. Soon we'll all be living in a polluted hell-hole constantly battling the equivalent of the Queensland floods or the Victorian bushfires year upon year. And you want me to waste what precious time I have left studying accountancy?It's called nihilism, and it's even more terrifying to witness in your teenage children than hickeys, drunkenness, truancy, insolence, idleness, bad marks or bullying. Nihilism, or the conviction that life on Earth is totally pointless, saps the young of their energy, their ambition, and their will to strive, struggle and triumph.' Extract from an online article by Rowan Dean, 17 August 2011.

#2012Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Not specifically about children, but maybe relevant, is this study of 50 patients with OCD. 28 of them linked their actions to their anxieties about 'climate change'.

#2012 Ubiquitous fear. A review of a new book on fear of chemicals, but which seems to have relevance for climate scares. Reviewer concludes 'Given all that, I fundamentally agree with Entine and the Council’s position. Too much junk science is pushed by activists and attorneys. Too many journalists and now bloggers and commenters are eager to scare the beJesus out of us in order to attract eyeballs and be seen as crusaders. Too many politicians care little about the science and what is real in their eagerness to be seen as the white knights out to save us all. Too many educators and academic scientists pass on their 1960s and 1970s values of distrust. The result is a world filled with false fears. It is endemic in our youth in particular. It is evident in far too many anonymous comments on the web. There is outrage, fear and mistrust that is stoked by too many institutions and fear mongers who have much to gain.'

#2012 A committed collaborator in climate scaremongering, the Washington Post carries a report on a survey suggesting young people are less concerned about the environment than the scaremongers (which seems to include most of the political class) would really like. I suspect it is a defensive alienation due to the relentless junk they and their teachers have been exposed to over the past 40 years beginning with Carson, then Ehrlich, Limits to Growth, and more recently the CO2 Alarm Bandwagon - the biggest junk and junket of all of them. Extract:
'CHICAGO — They have a reputation for being environmentally minded do-gooders. But an academic analysis of surveys spanning more than 40 years has found that today’s young Americans are less interested in the environment and in conserving resources — and often less civic-minded overall — than their elders were when they were young.The findings go against the widespread belief that environmental issues have hit home with today’s young adults, known as Millennials, who have grown up amid climate change discussion and the mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle.” The environment is often listed among top concerns of young voters. “I was shocked,” said Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who is one of the study’s authors. “We have the perception that we’re getting through to people. But at least compared to previous eras, we’re not.”This study, published online this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, looked at the life goals, concern for others and civic orientation of three young generations — baby boomers, Generation X and Millennials.Based on two long-standing national surveys of high school seniors and college freshmen, Twenge and her colleagues found a decline over the past four decades in young people’s trust in others, their interest in government and the time they said they spent thinking about social problems.'

#2014 A piece on a 2012 report which seems inclined to throw oil on the fire rather than challenge the scaremongering around climate - the truth of which is just taken for granted. Irresponsible or what? "The report compared what children may be feeling today to the distress suffered by American and Russian children over the threat of the nuclear bomb in the 1950s during the Cold War era, saying that climate change could have the same destructive impact. "Some children are already anxious about global warming and begin to obsess, understandably, about the future, unmoved by the small reassurances adults may attempt to put forth," the report said."

#2014 'Honey, You’re Scaring the Kids' A long, and thoughtful article about deliberate and accidental scaring of children on topical issues, most notably atomic bomb topics from the 1950s onwards. The author moves on to climate change towards the end of her article, and has this to say about this blog and yours truly:

'Denier “JS,” who pseudonymously blogs for the site Climate Lessons, has compiled a massive list of international examples, as reported in the media, of children’s climate fears. In JS’s cosmology, innocent children’s mental states are threatened by climate “alarmists’” overreach, and long-suffering parents are left to pick up the pieces.'

What she thinks I 'deny' is not stated. Apart from this lapse from grace, the article is well worth reading.

#2014 'Child psychiatrists and other mental health experts say they are seeing an increase in anxiety among today's youth over the constant doom-and-gloom atmosphere they are presented regarding so-called global warming/climate change.' Some of these 'experts', rather than attack the root cause of the relentless alarmism, then suggest the youth should make trivial adjustments to their daily lives in order to enjoy the illusion of 'making a difference'. http://www.naturalnews.com/045007_doomsday_talk_climate_change_anxiety.html#

clearly had enough of the climate alarmism he will have been exposed to for his entire life. 'Why do we place so much trust in the climate scientists and their Doomsday predictions? TV’s Mythbusters would do a better job of getting the global warming facts straight.'

'We spoke with young people from around the world about why it’s hard for their peers to care about the environment, how they reconcile their fears about the future, what made them start caring, and the little things that give them hope.' Such a waste.

#2016 'Young people are particularly at risk from this epidemic of fear. They are the first generation raised from cradle to grave on a constant diet of global warming fears.

And they are afraid. Very afraid.

A recent study finds millennials are more anxious and depressed than any generation since measurements began in the 1930s. They are being force fed lies. And so we find in the first quarter of the twenty-first century we live in a world where many people find it difficult to disentangle reality from fantasy. Could constant cries of environmental disaster blasted into their ears play a role?'

#2008 'Dr Joshua Wolf and Dr Robert Salo, of the Royal Children’s Hospital in
Melbourne, treated a 17-year-old patient who believed that "due to
climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the
deaths of millions of people." An extreme case, but as one of the doctors treating his illness noted "I wouldn’t be surprised if other patients also have similar worries
because [climate change] has become a very common preoccupation."

#2009. More examples reported from Australia in this newspaper article, which includes this paragraph:
'But experts have called for caution in teaching children about climate change because of the potential for fear, anxiety, frustration, anger and despair at catastrophic events.''Schoolchildren raised running out of drinking water, rising sea levels and the extinction of polar bears in a survey on their views last year."Children of that age should not be thinking the world is coming to an end," Sydney father-of-three Andrew Potter, 35, said."It is a form of propaganda."
See: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/preschool-greenwash-scaring-children/story-e6freuy9-1225791148619

#2009 Read this 'letter to a child' by a demented academic called Hamilton, confusingly entitled 'a letter to your father' as a particularly reprehensible example of scaremongering and propagandising aimed at the young: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/28372.html Many comments are, thank goodness, quite scathing. For example from 'wombat': 'Can I get an AVO to keep this creepy guy at least 100 metres from my kids' school and playground?'

# 2010. University of Western Australia

An example of poor reasoning skills in an academic psychologist exercised by CO2 in the air:

# 2010. Here is a climate activist who pauses to reflect after scaring at least one child with her climate materials:"I finish up with my workshop and the students start trickling away to lunch. One boy hangs back, and raises his hand. He asks his question in a low voice, not wanting others to hear:‘What’s actually going to happen with climate change? Is the world just going to burn up?’ For a moment the rawness of his fear renders me speechless. There is no way for me to instantly communicate what I need to; that the future he faces is uncertain, but within that uncertainty there is the possibility of a more just and sustainable world."
Now she doesn't for a moment question what she is doing or the flimsy basis for it in science, nor does she wonder long about the harm she is doing to children. Instead she reverts back to propaganda mode, and with an astonishing, but sadly all too common, degree of assurance, spells out that more climate indoctrination is required in the curriculum, under the guise of 'sustainability' of course. She, the writer, is a victim of the CO2 scam, and she is setting out to create more by targeting the young.
Original report here: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/todays-students-face-tomorrows-climate-problems-20100305-pn2e.html

#2010 'Climate change related obsessions and/or compulsions were identified in 28% of patients presenting with obsessive compulsive disorder. Their obsessions included leaving taps on and wasting water, leaving lights on and wasting electricity, pets dying of thirst, leaving the stove on and wasting gas as well as obsessions that global warming had contributed to house floors cracking, pipes leaking, roof problems and white ants eating the house.'

#2011 'Psychologists and responsible scientists warn that the resource material provided by the Federal Government to promote the cult amongst primary school teachers and students causes “unnecessary anxiety and endangers children's mental health”, and that "to put all of this before our children … is one of the most appalling things we can do to children." They say that far too much time is being spent in school classrooms “presenting scary scenarios” of eco-apocalypticism to students..'

'"(Children) feel incredibly despondent and helpless in the face of all this negative information," she said. "To put all of this before our children ... is one of the most appalling things we can do to (them).'

#2011Sydney school play. Not clear if the children were scared by this play, but it was clearly intended to scare both them and their parents http://www.nocarbontax.com.au/2011/08/school-play-preaches-climate-catastrophism-to-our-young/ (hat-tip 28 Feb 2012, Jo Nova) '“This was a deliberate attempt to link global warming alarmism to unrelated geological catastrophes. Presenting our children with such inaccurate information through subtle innuendo, whether through science class or theatre, is completely unacceptable in the context of an educational institution”, continued Mr Koutalianos. He continued, “The science has been politicized and is disputed and our children should not have to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. Climate/carbon propaganda should be kept out of our schools, until the adults sort out the truth from the lies.”'

He began his book this way: “War, famine, environmental disasters, material shortages, and a declining quality of life – that’s what schoolchildren are being taught to expect in their futures. What these grim and mostly inaccurate forecasts are doing to their lives I don’t know for sure. But I do know this: Our children are absorbing excessively negative misinformation.”

#2013 ' Why are there so many stupid people in the
world continuing to emit greenhouse gases without considering my future
(again, highly paraphrased from 5-year old syntax)?
You know, I couldn’t honestly answer,
because these are the same questions I’ve been asking myself for years.
Do

you know what a 5-year old does when contemplating an uncertain and
dangerous future that seems to have no solution? She cries. She has
nightmares, and her naïve mind can’t comprehend why anyone would let
this happen to her, or why her parents can’t spare her that fate. Her
worst episodes lasted about 2 weeks, but the subject is brought up now
again and again.' http://conservationbytes.com/2013/01/21/scaring-our-children/#comment-23918

Canada#2007 'The amount of propaganda poured into the heads of little children in the name of education is astonishing. Case in point: I just received a letter from a little girl in elementary school asking why I don't believe in global warming. She said her class had watched Al Gore's outrageous propaganda file, "An Inconvenient Truth," and then her letter began to spew all of its incredible inaccuracies. She was writing to me because she wanted to know why I didn't believe in global warming.'http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/deweese030807.htm

#2011. Not directly about a frightened child, but certainly about an anxious one, and certainly about the lengths that some teachers will go to get compliance with their eco-notions:
'...his parents discover that he has been excluded from taking part in a draw (in which a stuffed toy was the prize) because an earlier sandwich had been similarly packaged in a supposedly environmentally unfriendly plastic bag...'http://nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/teachers-the-new-green-police/

Germany#2012 'RexAlanFebruary 23, 2012 at 11:49 pmIt’s the same in Germany. My friends 10 year old son recently came home from school and told his mum that he wished he had never been born. When she asked why he said we are killing the planet, I don’t deserve to live. That’s what this brainwashing is doing to kids. Kids who should be looking forward to life, as I was at his age.It’s a crime against the young and vulnerable.'

#2009 A study in 2007 'in the German federal state of Hessen. 9-14 years old children where askedto descrive their emotions while following the discussion about climate change. Classifying the emotions in different clusters the results show that children mainly experience consequence-based, prospective emotions like “fear of destruction” and ethic-based, self related emotions like „a bad conscience“, but accordingly climate related emotions have no negative impact on the children’s general well-being.'
Source: Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions IOP Publishing
IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6 (2009) 572002 doi:10.1088/1755-1307/6/7/572002http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/57/572002

India#2012'Global warming and melting glaciers will have damaging effects on the planet without exception to any individual or country' 14-year old from Goa

New Zealand #2012 Scaring the young is a clear goal of climate extremists, and then seeking out some of them to be 'poster-children' is just a PR move. Here is a report of one 17-year old who won a competition to speak at the Rio festival of fatuous malevolent pomposity by saying this “What kind of a future do I want? Frankly, I’d just be happy to have a
future — to have that guaranteed — because right now, it’s not.”: http://grist.org/politics/seventeen-year-old-tells-world-leaders-to-step-up-give-her-a-future/
[hat-tip: Tom Nelson]

Nigeria#2014 An academic paper based on a survey of schoolchildren notes 'On the effects of climate change, the children believed that poverty, low agricultural production, reduction in care of livestock, increased vector-borne diseases and water-borne diseases, poor water quality, bush burning, extraction of fuel wood, drowning, malnutrition, school drop-out, mental and physical trauma are the results of climate change.'So pretty much all that's bad is due to climate change!! Do the academics conclude that something needs to be done to help these children get a more sensible perspective? No, of course not. They conclude that the children are ripe for more propaganda. Imagine if they get the British Council in, or Friends of the Earth, to explain that it is all due to the western world. What further poisoning of the children's views would take place!http://www.academia.edu/10721291/School_children_s_perception_of_climate_change_and_possible_remediationNote. After making this entry, I came across this post about agriculture booming in Africa: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/how-agriculture-is-booming-in-africa/ I wonder what the children would make of that?

Sweden#2013 'a recent study by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) showed that 80
percent of Sweden’s young people (ages 15-25) worry about how climate
change will affect their future. Moreover, half of the respondents think
about climate change once a week or more often, and no less than 25
percent experience stomach pains or unhappiness when they do so.'. That'll have the WWF schemers wondering they are going to get through to the remaining 20% with their scaremongering.http://www.globalwarming.org/2013/03/25/eco-anxiety-takes-its-toll-on-global-warming-alarmists/

United Kingdom

#2006 Climate change is kids' top fear - the headlineof a piece on the Children's BBC site (CBBC). This would be seen as a good result by the schemers at the BBC who wish to be leading the way in saving the world from climate changeThe piece is reporting on an RM School Gate Survey: "The results showed three quarters of 11 to 14-year-olds worry about climate
change, compared to 41% who are worried about going out with someone. And it looks like you lot aren't just all talk - 63% turn off the lights
when you leave a room, 82% of you recycle, and 75% say we should recycle more. The survey quizzed 1,554 kids on their views on the environment." http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6140000/newsid_6146300/6146300.stm

# 2007. More examples, and some insight into people who choose to frighten children for their own ends:

'If the aim of the politics of environmentalism is to scare people, then it has succeeded. Green writer George Monbiot declared in his book Heat that he wanted to ‘make people so depressed about the state of the planet that they stay in bed all day, thereby reducing their consumption of fossil fuels’. He may not succeed in keeping people in bed all day, but the panic that he and other environmentalists are helping to foster does seem to be keeping kids awake in their beds at night.

'A recent survey of 1,150 seven- to 11-year-olds in Britain found that half of them often lose sleep from lying in bed worrying about climate change. One in four blamed politicians for the problem while one in seven declared their own parents weren’t doing enough to save the planet (1). The aim of spiked eco-columnist Ethan Greenhart’s sinister educational manifesto – ‘If we can make children feel bad about the damage they cause to the environment, it can only cause them to make better choices than their parents’ – seems to be coming true (2).'
See: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2950/

#2007
'Climate change alarmists like Schneider, Al Gore, or George Monbiot (to name just a few), have spent the past decade forcing global warming nightmares down children’s throats. Now surprise, surprise, children are having real nightmares about the hypothetical problems relating to global warming. If anything, as Lee Jones rightfully argued, this 'should be a wake-up call for all the purveyors of the ‘politics of fear’. However, the UK education secretary Alan Johnson has more eco-brainwashing plans for manipulating, and micromanaging the lives of British children. The plans are part of a new major review of the secondary school curriculum, with an added new emphasis on... you guessed it - climate change....
I'll leave the last words to Alice, a seemingly frightened 10 year old from Plymouth, who wrote in to CBBCNewsround programme to talk about what scares her and keeps her awake at night - I wonder where she got this idea from?

"I fear that the gases all around me that are poisoning our earth and atmosphere can either kill me or kill anmials while we sleep because if that's what they're doing to the earth they could do it to me!" '

#2007 A British supermarket does a survey of children, and here is a report of their findings:'Children losing sleep over global warming Published Date: 23 February 2007 By ALAN JONES

HALF of children between the ages of seven and 11 are anxious about the effects of global warming and often lose sleep over it, according to a new report.

A survey of 1,150 youngsters found that one in four blamed politicians for the problems of climate change, while one in seven said their own parents were not doing enough to improve the environment.

The most feared consequences of global warming included poor health, the possible submergence of entire countries and the welfare of animals.

Most of those polled in the survey by supermarket chain Somerfield understood the benefits of recycling - although one in ten thought it was linked to riding a bike.

Pete Williams, of Somerfield, said: "Kids are exposed to the hard facts as much as anybody. While many adults may look the other way, this study should show that global warming is not only hurting the children of the future, it's affecting the welfare of kids now." '

# 2007: The Primary Review Regional Witness Sessions
'A review from Cambridge University, reported early in October in 2007, suggests that too much pressure on today’s primary school children is leading to stress and anxiety. The independently funded Primary Review is based in the university’s faculty of education and is an interim report which will be followed by a further 31, before the final, full report in 2008. What we have is a small part of the whole, but the words ‘anxiety’ and ‘stress’ should set alarm bells ringing. Is this what primary education is about? Are we really developing an education system where increasingly effective teaching is raising standards only to make children stressed and anxious? If this is the case, can we just carry on regardless, or do we need to think carefully about what we are doing?

#2008 'My work is in plant response to climate change, when eco-systems shut down. I was at school when I went to a lecture by an Exxon Mobil executive and I was terrified. I thought I have to do something useful with my life, so I moved into biology.' Confessions of an activist! But she'll need to take care over referencing Exxon Mobil, since her movement sees it as bad, bad, bad. More on her and similar victims of the scaremongering here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/14/environmental-activists-climate-change

# 2009. The BBC is notorious for having chosen to promote the scare about CO2 as if it was 'settled science'. The link given next is to a site by someone who claimed to have worked as a producer for the BBC, and this seems credible (2 clues: he takes the EU as a good thing which only cranks could oppose, and he has no doubts about climate). His piece begins:
'A friend surprised me this week when she said that a significant number of 7-10 year olds are starting to have nightmares about climate change. “It’s as scary for them as the H-bomb threat was for us.” It set me thinking about what exactly it takes to scare the pants off a generation.'

Why would that surprise anyone who has seen what the BBC have been pushing out. The writer was even part of it. He writes:'When environmental stories became mainstream, around 1991, we ran a string of them but somehow however hard I tried to sugar coat it, they all had the same implicit ending “… whatever we do, the baby seals are gonna die, and there’s nothing you can do …”

Sounds familiar? Sorry, kids of the UK. I didn’t mean to give you nightmares, honest.'

# 2009. The journal Nature is notorious for promoting climate alarm, but the associated blog is not impressed by this UK government propaganda clip deliberately frightening children for political purposes in 2009:

#2009 This is different but still despicable: an 11-year-old
child is scared when her father makes her climb a fence to take part in a
climate protest: '‘Get her down, she’s scared…you’ll be charged
with child abuse…we’ll arrest you.’ These threats were directed at
Duncan Blinkhorn, a 49 year-old community events co-ordinator from
Brighton and his then 11 year-old daughter Maya, as they perched on a
fence outside the Radcliffe-On-Soar power station on October 17th 2009
holding a Don’t Burn Our Future banner. '

'The film explains the science of climate change in a way that gets the message across to adults and children alike.

Jeremy, a schoolboy aged eight, said: “It’s always scared me but now I definitely want to do something about it. It made me think about all the guys who say they don’t care about climate change and think right guys, you’re going down.”

Roger, a professional storyteller said: “Excellent film but would it scare children? It scared the hell out of me! We urgently need to get it out to children at large.” Gross irresponsibilty. UCL should be ashamed of them.

#2011 'Well, earlier this year I questioned seventy pupils, all aged between 13 and 14, about their perceptions of climate change as part of my undergraduate dissertation. All in all, my findings paint a muddled picture. Overwhelmingly, the children questioned were interested in climate change, but they were confused about its causes and effects, and were worried about their future.' and later in the samne piece 'Whist many of the young people I spoke to were worried, even scared, about climate change, I do feel it would be wrong to frame children as naive or helpless.' http://greenlivingblog.org.uk/2011/12/09/pingu-will-die-childrens-perceptions-of-climate-change/

#2012 England. A senior pupil from an English secondary school believes that many metres of sea level rise could occur in the next few years if such things as wind turbines are not built (presumably believing that they reduce CO2 emissions, that that will control climate, and that huge sea level rises will thus be prevented). Here are her reported words: "I don't get how anyone can object to it. In a few years' time they won't even notice it. In another few years, if we don't do something about climate change, this view won't be here anyway because we'll all be under water." The 'it' refers to the erection of wind turbine forced on the area by central government in the teeth of lcoal opposition.

#2013 England'My name is Esha, I am a secondary school student from the Heathland School in Hounslow and a member of the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC). Geography
has always fascinated me. Volcanoes, globalisation, development, you
name it. It's the one subject that has left me with the desire to find
out more. In fact, it inspired me enough to appreciate that not only is
the Earth a beautiful place, but that it is one in desperate need of our
help. More importantly, it inspired me to get out there and do as much
as I could to make a difference.

Climate change
is the most pressing and threatening issue facing us. Through lack of
understanding from generations before us, we are now having to fix it.' Poor kid. She is a victim of mis-use of school time.

The
Unicef poll, conducted by Ipsos-Mori, found that two-thirds of young
people were worried about how climate change will affect other children
and families in developing countries and that only 1% said they knew
nothing about climate change.'

'The survey, commissioned by British Gas Generation Green, asked more
than 1,000 7 to 14-year-olds about the challenges the world will face in
the future.

More than half (53.3%) said the biggest challenge will be making sure
there is enough food, while 52.4% said tackling climate challenge will
be the biggest. Just under half (49.3%) said that making sure the world
does not run out of energy will be the biggest issue.'

United States of America #1995 USA Some quotes:'Melissa Poe, age nine: “Mr. President, if you ignore this letter we will all die of pollution and the ozone layer” (from Newsweek “Just for Kids!?!”). Catherine Mitchell: “Our Earth is getting hotter every minute and the only way we can stop it is to stop burning styrofoam. I’m also too young to die, might I add, so stop burning the Earth!” (from the FACE newsletter).
Jesse Hornstein, age 10: “No gases! No air pollution! It’s life or death” (from 50 Simple Things).
Adam Adler, age 11: “I think global warming and the greenhouse effect are very bad! What do we want the earth to become, a flaming ball?” (from 50 Simple Things).'Source: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/ecokids-new-automatons-on-the-block#axzz2SmwDsjgv

#1999 USA 'Shortly after Earth Day in 1997, for instance, a parent wrote a letter
to the New York Times: "I have noticed a disturbing trend. With each
passing school year, my children are more convinced that humans and
technology are bad for the planet....While teachers are helping to
insure a ‘greener’ future, I do not think they understand that children
may infer a condemnation of humanity."' http://cei.org/news-letters-cei-planet/too-much-fear-too-few-facts

#2006 An example from California:
'During my ephemeral teaching career in Los Angeles, there were numerous troubling examples of educational ludicrousness and lunacy. Of all the examples, the environmental “indoctrination” of my students was the most disconcerting. Doubtlessly, California schools’ obsession with the environment is incomparable with most other states, but the anecdotal evidence I mentally compiled is striking. It wasn’t only that the students were regularly pulled from my class at inopportune times to have the same information ingrained into their ten year-old psyches, but rather, that the messages a high percentage of these groups pontificated were that human-beings are inherently bad people, animal killers, and we are collectively ruining our once-beautiful earth. Consider the presentation made by a college theater group from UCLA. Showing no interest in a balanced engagement with the issues, the group instead staged a 20-minute play whose theme can be summarized thusly and unfortunately: Once upon a time, the Earth was beautiful. Then humans came and destroyed it. To appreciate the effect of such simplistic narratives on students, consider the reaction of a confused little girl in my classroom. Visibly upset, she approached me after the play to ask: �Are we really ruining the Earth�? I did my best to explain, as objectively as possible, that the reality was a bit more complicated that the play would have her believe. But this had little effect.'
See:http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=1853_0_1_0_M

#2006 'My 8-year-old daughter has just come running to me in a flood of tears. Why? Because she thinks the world is going to end sometime soon and it's the fault of me and, to a lesser extent, my generation. That's why. Why does she think that? Because she takes it for gospel that over bearing boffins like yourself know more than ordinary folk like me. Does it make you feel good? Making an eight-year-old girl with a mouth brace bawl her little eyes out?' http://www.grist.org/article/scary-movies/

#2007'Sean Hussey and his twin sister, Erin, are only 9 years old, but they
already know all about global warming. And they're worried, very
worried. Teachers at their Hillsborough, Calif., school have shown them
pictures of melting glaciers. Sean fears that polar bears will be left
homeless. "I like polar bears a lot," he explains. Erin is also
concerned about what she calls "the animal side" of climate change.
"There are lots of animals that shouldn't die," she says. "The humans
are the ones who are causing it."'http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/04/15/will-polar-bears-be-ok.html

#2007. Senator Inhofe accuses Hollywood of setting out to scare children on climate.
'Children are now the number one target of the global warming fear campaign. DiCaprio announced his goal was to recruit young eco-activists to the cause.

"We need to get kids young," DiCaprio said in a September 20 interview with USA Weekend.

In June, a fourth grade class from Portland Maine's East End Community School issued a dire climate report: "Global warming is a huge pending global disaster" read the elementary school kids' report according to an article in the Portland Press Herald on June 14, 2007. Remember, these are fourth graders issuing a dire global warming report. (LINK)

And this agenda of indoctrination and fear aimed at children is having an impact.

Nine year old Alyssa Luz-Ricca was quoted in the Washington Post on April 16, 2007 as saying:

'The boy has drawn, in his third-grade class, a global warming timeline that is his equivalent of the mushroom cloud. "That's the Earth now," the 9-year-old says, pointing to a dark shape at the bottom. "And then," he says, tracing the progressively lighter stripes across the page, "it's just starting to fade away." Alex Hendel of Arlington County is talking about the end of life on our beleaguered planet. Looking up to make sure his mother is following along, he taps the final stripe, which is so sparsely dotted it is almost invisible. "In 20 years," he pronounces, "there's no oxygen." Then, to dramatize the point, he collapses, "dead," to the floor.''Parents say they're searching for "productive" outlets for their 8-year-olds' obsessions with dying polar bears. Teachers say enrollment in high school and college environmental studies classes is doubling year after year. And psychologists say they're seeing an increasing number of young patients preoccupied by a climactic Armageddon.''Goldstein adds: "In my practice, they bring this up. Some of the kids are scared, and it's interesting, because I've seen an evolution. . . . Kids used to have fears of war and nuclear annihilation. That's dissipated and been replaced by global warming." ' '"If you follow global warming, every prediction is scarier than the prior one. It's really scary stuff. Global warming is this huge uncertainty, and we see it compromising our future. "So much of going to school," he says, "is getting an education and preparing yourself for the future. But . . . what's the use of a college degree when Wall Street is under water?"''"I don't like global warming," Alyssa continues, her eyes huge and serious behind her glasses, a stardust of freckles across her nose, "because it kills animals, and I like animals."''"I worry about it," says this girl who has yet to lose all her baby teeth, "because I don't want to die.'# 2009. A survey in the States in 2009:
'There's a new bogeyman lurking in the closet, and this one isn't imaginary. Us. One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won't exist when they grow up, while more than half—56 percent—worry that the planet will be a blasted heath (or at least a very unpleasant place to live), according to a new survey.
Commissioned by Habitat Heroes and conducted by Opinion Research, the telephone survey polled a national sample of 500 American preteens—250 males and 250 females. On a sliding scale of anxieties, minority kids have it worst; 75 percent of black children and 65 percent of Hispanic children believe that the planet will be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood.'
Hard to get more info on this survey, which makes it look dubious to me. Even in the States, I suspect telephone surveys of 6 year olds sound implausible.

#2009 Also referencing the Habitat Heroes survey:http://noapologies.ca/guest-columnists/humanist-end-times-mythologizing-terrifies-children (dead link spotted 24 June 2013, but see next entry for a replacement).'The demise of the planet? Well, that would scare anybody. And apparently it’s scaring children.We see “the demise of the planet” as secular humanism’s End Times prophecy.It has often been observed that secularists imitate Christianity. They have scriptures — the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, John Dewey, etc. They have a priesthood — public school teachers, college professors, the news media, and others. They have their own strange equivalents of saints and martyrs, holy places, holy days like Earth Day, and so on.Now they have an End Times scenario, too: the human race just goes on driving SUVs, eating meat, using incandescent light bulbs and toilet paper, and all of Planet Earth goes down the chute. All life goes extinct, starting with polar bears.'

#2009 'Those of us raising families know too well the drumbeat of fear that is used to manipulate our children into serfs for the environmental left. As a parent, it's taken a concerted effort to counter the onslaught of political propaganda that passes for the science curriculum, not only to help my children learn the truth, but to quell the anxiety it's meant to stir up.'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/02/hicks-climate-fears-harm-children/

# 2009
'The opening film at the Copenhagen “climate meeting” was an apt reminder of the long-term damage done by global warming propagandists. A little girl has nightmares about being alone in a desert where her life is threatened by floods and hurricanes.
Al Gore’s sci-fi horror fantasy in documentary style – An Inconvenient Truth – has been shown to school children, as young as 4 years old, around the world for years. Lesson plans aimed to convince children that the threat was real and that anyone doubting the message was wrong. They intentionally frightened children into emotional and psychological trauma.
Closing the Copenhagen film, many children repeated the phrase; “Please help save the world.” Now parents and teachers are faced with the sticky question of how that should be done. How can we deprogram millions of children the world over without allowing the experience to leave permanent psychological scars?'http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/deprogramming-children-after-global-warming-scam/

#2010. California. A young person in therapy recalls some of her childhood:
'When Emma returned the next week (thankfully), I asked about her reaction. She flooded me with stories about indoctrination by teachers. One of her earliest memories was singing songs on Earth Day, prayerfully, when she was five.

A sensitive soul, Emma became terrified that her beloved Earth would perish, and that she'd be culpable. Starting in third grade, she became an environmental fanatic. Emma went ballistic on her disabled grandmother when the old woman threw a bottle in the trash.

After school, she and her friends would sift through other people's garbage to root out recyclables. While Berkeley has plenty of homeless folks going through trash, Emma and her friends were out to save the world.

The poor thing would even sob in her car when she had to drive more than a few miles. She envisioned the pollution burning up the rain forests and asphyxiating polar bears.'

#2010'My son came home from school today with some terrible news. He’s
destroying the planet. Now, my wife and I might have to sell him off to
save Mother Earth. Thank God his teachers alerted us.And that’s the problem with teaching children about protecting the
Earth these days: Some schools want to scare the hell out of them.'http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/dont-scare-kids-into-saving-planet/blog-272651/?page=31#comments #2011. Not a frightened child, but instead a frightened child-like teacher from a US high school:

"My journey in climate change has gone from dawning realization, to “holy shit!” to terror and fierce urgency to protect my children, and now sadly, inevitably, to despair." Quite unfit to be a teacher in my opinion, and possibly in need of medical help - see the link for even more unhinged stuff. One wonders at the impression he makes on his classes. Perhaps the kids see through him?

#2011 A child activist, who started a climate alarmist movement along with his mother, is being used to front a legal action in the States. He describes his vivid views here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/05/sueing-us-government-climate e.g. 'Our addiction to fossil fuels is messing up the perfect balance of nature and threatening the survival of my generation' (hat tip FS)

#2011Radical Environmentalism in schools - (site updated 6 October 2011) (mainly USA). http://www.akdart.com/edu11.html 'This page is about the specific issue of environmentalism in American schools. It is my goal to provide enough anecdotal evidence to show that the schools are being used as more to indoctrinate kids than to give them the ability to make wise decisions and sort out truth from fiction.'

#2011 'Anxiety also leads to paranoia and then to cult thinking, with its us/them view of the world and its demonization of one’s opponents. It also leads to massive propaganda efforts to convert people to one’s cause. Thus we find that the true believers in global warming have mounted an insidious campaign to indoctrinate grade school children with their belief system. The main tool at their disposal is fear. Children now are as anxious about the future of the planet as are the fanatics. Thus do they rob childhood of any of any of the joyful insouciance that it once possessed.'http://blog.deeperquestions.com/blog/the-anxiety-underlying-global-warming-hysteria/

#2012A mother notices the harm that can be done to children by casual alarmism. Imagine the impact of deliberate, child-targeted alarmism! Extract: 'Yet very few people think twice about walking into the kitchen, pulling
up a chair, and saying things like “this world is going to h-e-double
hockey sticks. If the earth’s temperature rises just a few more
degrees, that’ll be the end of the human race!”
Okay, call me weird. I really don’t care if you say “hell” in front of
my children. But it seriously irks me that grown ups don’t consider the
trauma they’re inflicting on worried young minds by suggesting to them
that their lives, and all the beautiful nature that feeds their souls,
are inevitably coming to an end.' Source: http://www.shannonhayes.info/blog.htm?post=842332

#2013 Scaring children about climate may have been identified as
counter-productive by some alarmists, so for-instances are becoming
less-reported. But here is one, an 8-year old with a terrible vision of
the sun and earth:

OPINION: Telling My Children About Climate Change

#2013Texas. This is an example of a child at risk of being made anxious by his clearly very anxious parents who fear 'going up in flames': 'My husband and I are extremely lucky to live in a walkable
neighborhood with necessities nearby — supermarket, library, bilingual
preschool, and I can bike/bus to work. My issue is that now that we have
a baby, all the other moms drive their kids all over the place,
shopping and taking cute little day trips. I would prefer to drive only
in emergencies, but our entertainment options near home are severely
limited. Is it better to leave a smaller carbon footprint and make a
moral statement my son might be proud of one day, or to have additional
experiences with him/relationships with kids and moms across town that I
will treasure until we all go up in flames? New MomAustin, Texas http://grist.org/living/ask-umbra-can-i-have-a-kid-and-be-car-free/

#2013Connecticut. A report of desperately anxious parents, who in turn report anxious children: ''Hoyos says her 7-year-old, Kai, is already aware of climate change.“It comes from me. It comes from school. Exposure they get to the
media … all the coverage [of Super storm] Sandy or drought,” said Hoyos.
“Kids ask questions if they hear things in the news … sometimes kids
are afraid. ‘All the fires, are they going to come here?’”http://www.thehartfordguardian.com/2013/06/04/the-talk-how-to-tell-your-8-year-old-about-climate-change/

#2013 USA. A young adult who has probably been exposed to climate alarm all her life, is suggesting that more people need to be as scared about it as she is: 'That is why I completely support GlobalSolution.org's #CoverClimate campaign. I definitely think a major part of the problem is the lack of urgency felt by the general public, in part due to lack of climate change coverage or failure of the media to connect extreme weather events they cover to climate change. I think in this case, fear is a good thing. More people need to be as scared as I am because that is the only way change will happen.'http://globalsolutions.org/blog/2013/06/Being-Scared-about-Climate-Change#comment-369

#2014 Journalist Keith Kloor relates 'Not long ago my wife and I went out to dinner at a restaurant with another couple, who, like us, have two boys. The conversation inevitably turned to our kids, school, family stuff. Their older son made the transition this year to junior high school. I asked how this was going. Pretty well, the mother said, except he had recently become anxious and wasn’t sleeping well. “He’s worried about climate change,” she said. “It’s keeping him up at night.”

Shortly after that outing, my wife and I had dinner with another couple. Again, the conversation revolved around our kids. (They have a 13-year old son and an 11-year old daughter). Their teenage boy, I learned, was also having anxiety and sleep issues. “He’s become obsessed with climate change,” the father told me. “He thinks the world is doomed.”

This looks promising, since a great many children and adults may well benefit from wise counselling to assure them that the risk of climate catastrophe has been hyped out of all proportion to the evidence-base for it, and that they should turn their concerns in other directions. But no, this young lady is but a victim of the scaremongering who wishes to commiserate with other victims in order to cheer themselves up a bit: 'I’m scared for the effects of climate change on the world I love. Rather than try to think about, save, or mourn for the whole world, I decided to think about my city and state, and the living creatures — including other humans — who share it with me.' https://climateanxietycounseling.wordpress.com/about/

#2016 A victim of the scaremongering delays having children. I guess she was at college say 25 years ago, and high school a few years before that. So, around the time Wirth was plotting about Hansen's performing seal spot at the 1988 Hearings. Lots of publicity generated by that. She may well have been anxious about climate as a child, and took her fears with her into adulthood. For example 'My husband and I had made a home in Seattle for several years, and my friends of childbearing age tended to be writers and activists, scientists and scholars. When considering kids, they weighed not only their desires and finances but the state of the world. Many of them had read grim prognoses of what climate change would do to life on Earth. Even in the restrained language of science, the future holds unprecedented difficulties and disasters. For many people, these problems were an abstraction, but as an environmental journalist, I knew enough to imagine them in front of me. Driving across the bridge to my house, I pictured city beaches drowned by the rising sea.Source: http://www.thenation.com/article/how-do-you-decide-to-have-a-baby-when-climate-change-is-remaking-life-on-earth/Hat-tip: Greenie-watch. Scroll to section beginning 'Credulous woman believes the doomsters'

11 comments:

Thank you for drawing attention to the climate alarmists' tactics. What I find reprehensible about their actions is their blatant disregard for honesty and the democratic process.Here in Australia we've just had the carbon tax implemented, against the wishes of the majority of Australians and in spite of an assurance before the election that it would not be introduced. This will have a very negative impact upon the Australian Dollar and our mining and manufacturing industries.Keep up the good work.

Thank you for your encouragement. I too am dismayed by what has happened in Australia. I get the impression though that the electorate will express their own dismay by voting overwhelmingly against the current government at your next general election. I certainly hope so.

It's really worth attention giving reports, below comment is quite right "everybody worldwide needs to unite to fight this." I am very happy to read that you have written the article with full of courage because this is a bitter truth like I used to read from the Trivedi Effect and listen from it's founder Mr. Trivedi. Anyway, there is many research article who says, "global climate change will increase anxiety, fear and depression” so your reports has a powerful base provide a considerable topic.

One thing should be kept in mind by the teachers and parents that it is not necessary that the child who suffers from ADHD possess all the three problems. There are various instances in which the child is not able to pay complete attention in the class and they are not impulsive as well as hyperactive. This kind of ADHD is called ADHD-PI. ADHD-PI stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder- Predominantly Inattentive).

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Useful references, thanks. It's a fine line between scaring the hell out of kids and empowering them to act on not only the climate issue but all of the other environmental issues we are facing. Personally I'm 36, an environmental scientist and reluctant to have children as the state of the planet concerns me deeply. I'm not sure I'll be able to justify to them why I brought them into this world when the trajectory we are on is clear.

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